When Katie Crouch learned there was another Katie Crouch who lived in the same city and apparently had the same professional interests as her she thought, huh, what else do we have in common? She would soon find out.

This story was done in collaboration with Ozy.com, the online magazine that published both Katies’ essays:

Katie Crouch continues to virtually cross paths with her name twin from her new city of Chicago, where she works for an educational publisher, raises a toddler on her own, and writes a blog. Check it out at www.thesolomamaproject.com.

Katie Crouch is a New York Times best selling novelist. Her books include Girls in Trucks and Abroad, among others. She is currently working on a thriller about doppelgängers. Not really.

A longer version of this story originally aired on the Outside Podcast, from Outside magazine. Their first season investigates the Science of Survival and is supported by PRX and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.